One week away.....

As I sit here on a snow day with 10 inches of snow outside, I'm trying to decide what clothes to bring to a country where the temperatures will be in the 90s.  In the Thai culture it is not acceptable to show skin, so that rules out shorts, tank tops and flip flops.  I have to decide what pants, shirts and shoes will be as cool as possible.

I am also considering all of the methods of transportation that we will be taking.  We will be on planes for about 24 hours to get to Bangkok, on boats within the country, and on trains between locations in the country (including a night train where we will have to sleep on it & arrive in our location in the morning - I can sleep on planes fine but I've never had to sleep on a train...).

I walked to CVS today to buy earplugs (to block out noise while sleeping on planes, in hotels, & on the train), motion sickness medicine (I don't think I get motion sick but I'm taking it just in case), Purell, travel rolls of toilet paper (very small), insect repellent, and bandaids.

Politically, the elections were this past Sunday so I am checking the news daily on the internet to hear about the status of protests and any violence associated with them.  The US government's latest warning from about a week ago expires on the day that we land in Bangkok, indicating that it thought the threat of violence during protests should be done by then. We'll see....